All language subtitles for T.J Hooker s03e05 The Shadow of Truth

Thank you.

you

You don't have to wait much longer.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go
after police intelligence. I'm just

I don't think you have enough evidence
to turn your story into a major expose.

lot of people could have had their
constitutional rights violated. The

have no business spying on any political
group or individual.

Intelligence gathering is vital to the
safety of the people of this city.

Thanks to your articles, the entire
division's practically paralyzed.

Give me a break, Hooker, huh?

I'm just a girl trying to get her job
done.

You're not just trying, you're getting
it done.

I wish my dad was around to hear you say
that.

He worked two jobs putting me through
college.

And then he died right after my first
assignment.

And the last night he said that...

He'd do it all over again that it was
worth it.

That's why I pushed so hard.

I have to be sure it was worth it.

It was worth it.

And what you're doing is important.

And your father will always be a part of
it.

Come and admire it, Miss Jericho.

Do you remember what happened to the
last gentleman who sent me champagne?

He took a bath in Dom Perignon, vintage
64, I believe.

And the restaurant made the second front
page.

Enjoy the food and the wine.

Thank you.

Gotta

be

Franco. Over there by the window.

You're a regular, Sherlock Holmes. I
didn't see the creep coming in, did you?

Get this.

Thanks for whitewashing me in your lone
shark story. If it weren't for you, I'd

be dining in the state prison commissary
tonight.

He's right.

Let's do it.

I'm returning your champagne, Mr. Cole.

What are you talking about?

Read my lips. I don't accept champagne
from a lowlife like you. I didn't send

you any champagne.

Lisa!

Check call.

Get an ambulance.

Yes, I'd feel better if I got the
shooter. How is he?

I think he's dead.

Lansing. Como.

Somebody shot him from outside.

This is a homicide, Sergeant Lansing.
Your intelligence.

So?

Just wondering what you're doing here.

Maybe I should ask what you're doing
here, Miss Jericho.

She was having dinner with me. Yeah?

Maybe you ought to check your loyalties,
Hooker.

It's a sin of crime, so I'll overlook
your smart mouth.

What are you doing here?

Is this one do I have to answer or will
you see? Cut it out. Just answer the

question. The victim, Frankie Como.
We've been keeping a tail on him.

When he went in for dinner, I walked
down the street to grab a cup of coffee.

if you'd been on top of your man, you'd
have seen this go down.

I'm not babysitting Como.

I just want to know where he is.

Was.

Lady friend hooker.

She sandbagged a lot of my buddies.

Some of them even lost their pensions.

Two of them lost their pensions, and
they deserved it. Cops like that give us

all a black eye.

She's a piranha, man.

She'll chew up every one of us if it'll
sell newspapers.

Neither one of us is very popular here.
But you have to be here, and I don't

deserve it. You got it. Jim, why don't
you do me a favor?

Jim, take her home for me, will you? Oh,
I can't go home. I've got a story to

write. Write it at home.

Well, thanks, Hooker. I get to show up
for the Queen of the Muckrakers, huh? Do

me a favor, will you? And save the
political dialogue for later. Okay, you

it. One favor coming up.

I just got a call from Sergeant Lansing
in intelligence.

He says that your name's on everyone's
lips over there and what they're saying

isn't very nice. Six and stones.

Maybe he's got a point.

Lisa Jericho came down on the
intelligence division and now the entire

department is taking the heat. What's
this got to do with my personal life?

That's something I shouldn't have to
tell you, Hooker.

You've been teaching recruits for years
that the officers in this department

should stand together. Shoulder to
shoulder.

But not against a woman who's being
attacked for telling the truth.

The APV turned up stolen, probably a
shooter used.

Cliff Lansing said it stacks up as a
syndicate hit. Frank Como was loan

-sharking mob money to influential
people who could make trouble when he

to collect.

Could be. Also could be that Lansing's
mistaken.

How about getting off Lansing's back?

He was my partner for six months,
Hooker, before he joined intelligence.

He's a first -class cop and a first
-class guy.

Lisa Jericho's blown the whistle on some
heavyweights that could have put a

contract out on her. That makes me think
twice about her being at Como's table

when they went down.

I can't shake the feeling that it's more
than coincidence. That may well be.

But you know what I think? Take it easy,
Jim. I know what you think. You're

backing Lance? No, I think you have
tunnel vision where that lady's

Come on, partner.

Ran into Ralph Jenkins.

He was crying about Lisa Jericho.

Says she was preparing a smear job on
him.

The lady gets around.

He's terrified that the people who
control him will have him eliminated if

Jericho's story on him breaks.

He mentioned that he's having lunch with
the lady tomorrow.

Head her off or buy her off.

Good luck to him.

I don't think you're paying any
attention to me.

I said Ralph Jenkins is having lunch
with Lisa Jericho tomorrow.

That seems to me to suggest another
opportunity.

So we could use Jenkins like we tried to
use Como as a screen for getting rid of

Miss Jericho.

But this time it has to work.

I got Parker and Tyson sitting here. She
can't disappear.

Any chance Jenkins let drop where
they'll have lunch? I can find out for

Now...

Here's a confidential summary of the
building materials delivered to my

children's hospital site.

What about it?

I know I agreed to use cheaper materials
than we contracted for, but some of

this stuff is bordering on substandard.

Don't get precious on me, Mundy. Without
my connections, you'd be in bankruptcy.

You wanted me to get you healthy? I'm
getting you healthy.

I have a reputation as a fine builder.

You couldn't support it.

You begged for what I could bring you,
under -the -table labor, material

contracts. Well, you got it.

And we're in this together, all the way.

The more I think about it, the more I
think that hit was for you.

You've got enemies out there.

Plenty of them. Not as many as Como and
not the same kind.

When you went over to his table, I saw
him say something to you.

About the champagne, he said he
didn't... If he didn't send it, who did?

Well, maybe someone who wanted you over
there at that table so that they could

take you out and make it look like you
walked into a hit on Como.

You're scaring me, Hooker.

It's intended.

I want you to be careful.

I mean really careful.

I'm talking careful.

I'm serious.

Okay, I promise.

Right now what I need is a bodyguard for
lunch.

Any offers?

Yeah. I'll send up a sandwich.

And champagne.

No, I gotta talk to Armando about the
champagne.

Goodbye.

Pop sticks pretty close to her not as
close as we're going to

Someone

went

to a lot of trouble to make Lisa think
that note in the champagne came from

Your theory that her being at a table
wasn't a coincidence is starting to look

good This is one time I wish I'd been on
the wrong track.

So supposing Como's girlfriend can tell
us who he was meeting for dinner, what

does that give us?

Como's no -show guest could be the
shooter, could be an accomplice.

You said Como's girlfriend was a fashion
model?

Mm -hmm.

Her name is Linda Wagner.

She's doing a bikini layout today.

Sounds like something I should handle
alone.

Well, that's very kind of you, Junior.

But I never lay the tough jobs off on my
part.

All right, sweetie. Yes, beautiful. I
love what you're doing with your hair.

Nice. I like the color of this. It's
beautiful.

Okay, now we're on the beach. Having
fun. Moisten your lips for me.

That's it.

Great. Oh, I love it.

Yes. Beautiful.

Oh, good.

All right.

Okay, give me three quarters.

Nice. Great.

That's it. Yeah, this is the kind of
lead I like to run down.

I know, preferably alone.

Send it, Wagner.

Save your film, Andre. I have a date
with a cop.

Sergeant Hooker, my agent told me you
were coming, but I don't know anything

about Frank's death.

Just want to ask you a few questions.

My partner, Vince Romano.

Sorry to bother you so soon after the
shooting.

Yeah, well, when you live with a guy
like Frank, you figure it's just a

of time.

Frank Como's reservation at the
restaurant was for two.

The other person didn't show.

Do you know who it was?

Frank didn't say, and I knew better than
to ask. He mentioned why he chose that

particular restaurant?

He didn't.

The guy he was meeting chose it. Then
whoever it was must have made the

reservation. Yes.

He told Frank that he liked to sit at a
special table.

Darling girl, I am in desperate trouble.
Will you please get back on the set?

Andre, will you please bug off?

I'll be there in a minute.

We don't have any more questions for
you. Thank you very much.

Whatever Frank did, he was good to me.

The world's full of pretty girls,
Sargent.

And if Frank hadn't opened the right
doors, I'd, uh, just be one of the

Now, they're the girl who tells it like
it is. Yeah, and to sort it out, she

told us what I didn't want to hear.

Somebody set up Frank Como.

That's a way of taking out Lisa Jericho.

I don't know how they know, but they
knew.

Point is, someone arranged for Como to
be at your favorite restaurant, and that

same someone arranged for champagne to
get you to Como's table. So they could

kill you, Lisa, and make it look like an
accident.

Interesting, but I'd say the odds are
against it.

Como played ball in a much tougher
league than mine. Lisa, we've agreed

not short on enemies.

Who's at the top of the list?

Well, discounting out now crazies, I
guess Ralph Jenkins would be one. The

restaurant supplier.

He's been squeezing restaurants all over
town, fighting for an organized crime

ring. And your article will give him the
kind of high profile his backers can't

live with.

He'd like me to believe I'm buying him a
bullet.

Jenkins.

All right, he's a possible.

Who else?

One of our city's most prominent
builders, Kevin Mundy.

You're going to unload on him? Like a
ton of bricks.

He used to be a legitimate operator, and
then he...

Got himself into a financial bind and
now he's trying to bail himself out by

cutting corners on the new children's
hospital.

There's one more, but you're not going
to like it. Our intelligence did it.

You're right, I don't like it.

But I'll talk to Sergeant Lansing.

And Lisa, look after yourself.

I reached Ralph Jenkins on his car phone
and told him you said okay on lunch

tomorrow. Good.

One question.

Shoot. Why didn't you tell Hooker you're
having lunch with Jenkins?

That lunch is going to wrap the story.

I don't want anything getting in the
way.

We've been waiting on you, Monday.

You guys wait outside.

I don't ever want those guys in here
again, do you understand?

Don't worry about it.

Did you find out where Jenkins is having
lunch with Miss Jericho?

Top of the blazer, one o 'clock.

I'll arrange that they get a final
course that's not on the menu.

Not bad, but not good enough.

What's with Hooker?

He's having an anxiety attack over
Luther Jericho.

I just talked to Lansing. He said you
really did a number on him.

What's your point?

I still think you've forgotten what team
you're on. Look, Jim.

Lisa Jericho is somebody we need.

And whether she's rubbed Lansing the
wrong way, or the police intelligence

division, or Captain Sheridan, or the
whole damn department, it really doesn't

matter.

See, I think she's lighting candles in
the darkness so the dirt can be cleaned

up.

And that's an important service.

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Maybe I just needed to be reminded.

I understand what you're saying, but it
sure doesn't go down easy.

Can't argue with that.

Neither the sitting here, knowing that
she's a target, and not having any way

protect her.

She catches a bullet, Jim.

Is there anything I can do?

Well, one of the people she's gunning
for, who may be gunning for her, is

Jenkins.

Stacy and I check him out first thing in
the morning.

And while you're doing that, Romano and
I will zero in on another candidate,

Kevin Monday.

Yeah, the 15 will do fine.

If there's a violation, Sergeant, my
teamster coordinator will handle it.

not here because of trucks or traffic,
Mr. Monday.

I'm here to talk to you about Lisa
Jericho.

Well, you want the Sun Telegraph
building. You missed the sign.

This is the new children's hospital.

That's funny.

Lisa Jericho's writing an article about
you, and you know it.

I don't see what business that is of
yours.

You heard about the killing of Frank
Como the night before last?

We have good reason to believe the rifle
shots fired were meant for Lisa

Jericho. Well, I still see... What that
has to do with you?

You stand to lose from the pages coming
out of Lisa Jericho's typewriter.

That's motive.

To silence the lady.

I would watch my word, Sergeant.

Very carefully.

I am.

And I'm cautioning you to stick to your
trade.

Soil around here has remnants of clay.

Slick. Could be expansive.

I didn't know they allowed you to put a
standard foundation on this kind of

soil. You're into everything, aren't
you, Sergeant?

You can build on any surface, depending
on a variety of technical factors.

As you're so concerned, soil engineering
and geological reports are open for

inspection at the city building
department.

I might just give them a look Monday.

Safety is my business.

public and personal.

Anything on Jenkins?

Yeah. We let him know if anything
happened to Lisa, we'd come looking for

He's uptight about more than Lisa.
Something even more threatening is on

case. That was our reading.

The syndicate heavies he works for?

You can bet on it.

When Lisa's story breaks, he becomes
instantly expendable.

Perfect reason for him to do her in.

Well, if that's what he had in mind, why
did he volunteer that he was meeting

her for lunch?

What?

Where? On top of the plaza. Why, you
don't think he'd try anything, do you?

Not if he's making announcements about
lunch dates.

But we may not be the only ones who know
about lunch. You're saying there could

be a replay of the Como hit?

And this time with Jenkins as the cover
victim.

Let's go.

Okay, I'll take care of it.

Jenkins?

Yeah, she's here. Hold on.

Ms. Jericho!

It's your office.

Here on the phone.

There's Lisa near the Mercedes.

I don't like what I'm seeing near that
tattoo joint.

That's Marty Tyson.

I sent him up for ours.

He's an explosive sex.

Close. Hooker, understatement. Stay
here.

Eli?

I needed you alive.

You were right, Hooker.

Lisa's the target.

The question is, how many times can you
be there at the right moment?

It's a big question.

And I don't like to think about the
answer.

What does it take to convince you that
you're the mark, that you're the one

someone's trying to kill? Yeah, you're
right. What am I supposed to do about

Hooker? We have talked about this.

The way our jobs are similar, the way we
both feel about what we do, I can't run

every time somebody threatens me any
more than you can. Don't run, but at

let me put a shield around you. Okay,
okay. I'll tell you what I'm going to

You see if you can get me protection,
and I'll go along with it. I promise.

Great. And while I'm making the
arrangements, I want... I have things to

Lisa. I'll see you later.

Lisa!

Hooker!

I just got the news.

I see you're all right. Yes.

Miss Jericho.

Is she okay?

No, she's impossible.

She won't stay still. She came in, made
a statement, and ran out.

Hooker, I just got a call from Lansing.
He's decided you're right about Miss

Jericho being the target.

So have I.

Too many coincidences.

Now, what can I do to help?

Well, the guy I took down, the one who
planted the bomb, Tyson.

Ask Lansing if his troops can find out
who Tyson was working for lately.

Well, consider it done. I'll have him
get out the net with as many of his men

as he can. Great.

And one more thing.

Can you assign 24 -hour surveillance to
Mr. Jericho?

Now, that's a legitimate request,
Hooker. But we simply don't have enough

evidence to present it to the deputy
chief.

It won't wash.

I wish I could tell you different.

So do I.

The allegations I've summarized on that
page will form the spine of my article.

You're a pot -shotter, Mr. Jericho.

What you have here are isolated
situations and particulars that fall far

of representing the complexity of the
task of a project as large as this one.

Mr. Mundy, we both know that your entire
organization has been directed to turn

a deaf ear to my inquiries. Now, if the
situations in particular stated here...

Are isolated.

You have no one to blame but yourself.

The purpose of my coming here is to give
you one more opportunity to state your

case before I turn in my copy.

When is the magic moment?

Tomorrow evening.

Unless you want to sit down with me and
refute these points one by one.

Lady, I'm putting you and your publisher
on notice.

I'll do my refuting in court.

You've made your choice.

German, Monday.

This Jericho woman has to be stopped
before tomorrow night.

I don't care how you stop her, just do
it.

The captain's really uptight about not
being able to give Leif the protection.

Take it from one who's heard it from his
own lips, loud and clear.

Something's got to be done to cover her.

What about us, Hooker? We could take
turns watching her during her off hours.

Wouldn't be around the clock, but it'd
be better than nothing. We got yourself

deal. We'll work out a schedule
beforehand to watch.

Okay.

Glad I caught you. I just got some
feedback on Marty Tyson.

He recently worked for a man by the name
of Brad Thurman.

An elected officer at one of the
building trade associations.

Here, I got a location on him.

I owe you one.

Call it even.

I didn't give your lady a fair shake
from the top.

Official, building trade association,
and a two -bit hood.

Why would they be holding hands?

You can't ask Tyson.

Mr. Thurman, your office said you'd be
here.

I'm Sergeant Hooker. This is Officer
Romano.

We'd like to talk to you about Marty
Tyson.

I understand he worked for you. He did.

We had to let him go. He's a hothead.

From what I read in the papers, he tried
to kill somebody. You people put him

away. We figured he hired out as a
contract killer. Any idea who he signed

with? I couldn't tell you, Sergeant.
That kind of employer doesn't call for

references. Mr. Thurman, talking about
that.

What led you to hire a man of Tyson's
background?

The men I represent are a tough breed.
They don't always appreciate what you're

trying to do for them.

It's good to have some muscle around.

But like I said, Tyson had too quick a
flashpoint for his good or mine.

Thanks for your time.

Sure thing.

Need some building supplies?

Need some answers.

Workers who belong to Thurman's
Association are skilled craftsmen.

They don't work in supply yards like
this.

I want to find out what Thurman was
doing here.

What are you doing here?

We've tied tight into a buildings trades
official named Thurman. And something

very interesting, Thurman is buying
drywall by the truckload from a

supply company for Kevin Monday's
construction project.

Monday's landing gets dirtier and
dirtier.

All the presses.

You do that. I'll hold on to you. I want
you in a safe place until we know where

all this leads.

Don't put hooker me. I told you I don't
want any argument.

At this rate, I'm going to need a blood
transfusion. Must be a bad blade.

That's what I thought last night when I
used it on my legs.

Your legs?

Well, at least it wasn't a good con.

How are you with the halfway?

Same as I am in a gourmet kitchen.

A disaster.

Except when it comes to making coffee.

I can brew Sardis, and you'll think
you're drinking fresh ground Kenya

Can I ask for more?

Not if he knows what's good for him.

One cup of Cafe Jericho, coming up.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm Claudia.

Is Hooker here?

He's shaving.

Oh, no.

I borrowed his razor yesterday to shave
my legs, and I didn't change the blade.

Really?

How are you with a hot plate?

Claudia, this is Lisa Jericho. I told
you about her. Oh, sure.

Oh, I love your writing, Miss Jericho.

It's dramatic, but economic.

And your humor has the flavor of Samuel
Clemens.

Thanks.

Well, here's your robe, Hooker. Put it
on the box.

Oh, the other box.

Bye now.

Bye, sweetheart.

We were at the pool.

She had goosebumps.

Oh, goosebumps.

She looked like she'd freeze to death.

Before she got home.

Where is her home? Next door.

You can explain it to me tonight,
Hooker. And you better have a good

You do it at the city engineer's office
in 40 minutes. Yeah.

If he can help me make the Brad Thurman,
Kevin Mundy connection, you'll be

pounding on an exclusive.

on your own would -be murders for the
morning edition.

Lisa Jericho?

Oh, she's not here right now. May I ask
who's calling, please?

I have information of police
intelligence bugging the mayor's office.

Um, can I have your name and number, and
I'll have Miss Jericho call you right

back. I can't do that. I can't talk now.

I'm afraid I can't. Tell her, if she
wants this story, to be in the phone

at the corner of Brighton and 7th Street
in 45 minutes.

Any way you slice it, the city
engineer's office can't move fast enough

us. They have to investigate Thurman and
Mundy very, very carefully.

Or they'll get wise and cover their
tracks.

Why don't we stop?

If you call Lisa, you'll feel better.

Contact Academy Precinct Operator for a
message from Lisa Jericho, phone

station. There you go.

You don't call her, she calls you. What
is this, ESP?

4 -Item -30, roger.

Mrs. Hooker.

When'd she leave?

What's going on?

Lisa's secretary.

Lisa told her to let me know that she's
going to meet somebody about a hot story

on police intelligence.

You get a name?

All she knows is some sort of deep
-throated foreman.

Thank you.

Miss Jericho, Mr. Money would like a
word with you. Well, then tell him to

playing games.

They're seven feet. Take a left. Right's
one block up.

They set her up.

And they got her. I'll put out a bill.

Hold on a second.

What do they got?

Clay.

Like at Kevin Mundy's construction site.

Maybe that's where they've taken her.

I'll call Corrigan and Stacy for backup
and have them meet us there.

4 -Atom -16, 4 -Atom -30, request backup
at construction site for new children's

hospital on Hill Street.

Handle code 3.

4 -Atom -16, rolling backup to 30.

Look, Mundy, I'm not about to make a
deal with you.

I know that.

Would have been easier.

One has to do what one has to do.

Forget it, Miss Jericho.

There's nobody to run to.

Nobody to call.

I wish it hadn't come to this.

But you pushed me to the wall.

I'm not going to watch my family, my
life, go down the drain so you can write

headline. Think, Mundy.

If something happens to me on this
construction site, the police are going

know it's you.

If they find your body.

Now, you wanted this.

know more about my operation.

Now you can be a part of it.

The public you serve so well will be
parading past you for the next hundred

years.

Yeah.

All right, Monday.

You're through. Give it up.

You know, I've been going over my
research on your intelligence division.

And I think I may have shortchanged them
by not fully telling their side of the

issue.

So, I've decided to do a follow -up.

That, if you'll excuse the expression,
is good news.

Is there any reason why you wanted to
have dinner here?

They say when you fall off a horse...
Yeah, but a horse doesn't try and blow

up and shoot you and bury you in ten
feet of cement.

You've got to be more careful, lady.
Okay, I'm not about to start tiptoeing

around controversial stories.

Nobody's as in love to tiptoe around
controversial stories. I'm just telling

to be more aware of the situation.

People could be dangerous. Why?

I have my own personal police escort,
don't I?

That's a leading question.

Why don't we discuss it at length?

After dessert.

Your place or mine?

Claudia doesn't have a key to mine.